You Know That Show / Advertising

You Know That Show — Advertising

The purpose of this page is to allow contributors to post descriptions of half-forgotten shows, those old classics that sit on the edge of the mind, with details and images remembered but names tantalizingly forgotten. Whether to gather trope examples or just for peace of mind, post them here. Be warned that, due to necessity, all entries may contain spoilers.

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• I have no idea what it was for, but there was this old commercial (probably Canadian) where this man's son was going off to college and the man went into an Imagine Spot about his son joining a cult when he got there, which consisted of people waving doughnuts around and chanting "doughnut" at the father.
• A commercial from the US, very likely broadcast during the World Cup in 1994, that poked a bit of fun at the fact that Americans don't know soccer. A player (presumably from another sport such as football) accepts a pass by catching it and starts running down the field with the ball. The official blows his whistle and takes out a card (forget if it was yellow or red). The player thinks he's asking for an autograph and gratefully signs it. I forget what the commercial was actually for, but it was probably a soft drink.
  • I've seen the same ad, though I can't find additional information. I happen to remember that the card was yellow, and I distinctly remember the line "Must be a fan".
    • Yes! I remember that line too. It's the same ad. Now what was it for?
• This is a really famous series of ads, but I'm having trouble finding info on the internet. It was a series of late-90s "Smiths" chips ads from Australia. The ads showed a group of stick-figures talking about "Smiths" chips, and one ad was about stockpiling chips in the attic when the wife's parents came to visit.
• Here's one that many of you probably won't remember at all. It's for a type of cleansing wipe, and it has a sort of superhero theme. To be more specific, there's this guy in a tuxedo, and he's tied to a chair in the Big Bad's lair. The Big Bad has an orange/red suit, and a black spikey mask (I think...it's been a long time). He and his henchmen are then surprised by a woman with pink hair, wearing a blue-and-silver outfit and make-up, who appears in the room and fights them all off. She then unties the man, before her wrist...thingy (it's hard to explain) beeps, and she leaves. She changes back into her normal clothes, and wipes the make-up from her face with the cleansing wipes. She then appears in a fancy dress, and the man (presumably her boyfriend) runs up and says something along the lines of "You'll never guess what happened to me." She shoots a knowing look at the camera, and the advert ends. Like I said, you probably have no idea what I'm talking about.
• There's this one that this troper vaguely recalls. It has this teenage boy with a group of younger children, and they're all gathered around a fire in the woods like they're camping and the teenager is the chaperon. The teenager says something like "Let me tell you the story about the half-human wolf man!" One of the children says "that's stupid" and the teenager snarls at him, suddenly getting these huge animal teeth. While the kids scream and run, the teenager casually looks up at the sky, sees there's a full moon, smiles, and nods.

Questions with suggested answers

• Okay there was this advert for some product that may or may not be computer related a couple of years back. All I can remember is that it had a girl decorating a room and then the room turned into a raft floating on the water and it had an unusual soundtrack which was non-english (I think, but could be wrong on that last). Any ideas guys?
  • This is probably isn't it since you're looking for an advert, but what you are describing sounds exactly like a music video from a song that featured in a popular Apple commercial about 5 years ago: New Soul by Yael Naim. For the chorus, she just sings nonsense "Na na nas" I used to love listening to that song.
• I'm positive this was an old Nike commercial, but I can't seem to locate it anywhere online. Some Football(?) player was talking about how the new shoes made him unstoppable- as it went on, he kept thinking of ways the opposing team might be able to catch him. Towards the end it was "Maybe if they had trucks? nah", and ended on "maybe if they had helicopters", with a fleet of Apaches chasing him down.
  • Found it. Marshall Faulk from the nineties.
• Ahh, the power of Cheese. A commercial that aired sometime in the mid 90's, where a waiter at a fancy resturant is shredding cheese for a guys meal (the whole "say when" at olive garden deal). Well, this guy has a pile of cheese a foot tall, and the waiter is exausted. In the corner of the resturant there are two managers, and the one jerks his thumb (like an MLB skipper) for the waiter to come over, and another waiter replaces him. The one manager then says to the other "I'd have pulled him sooner." It ends with that tag line, Ahh the power of cheese.
  • ...do you have a question? In any case, I know the exact commercial you're talking about. I have a bunch of taped episodes of MST 3 K and this happens to be one of the commercials in one of them. That said, if it's one of my tapes it's early 2000s without question. But really, what's the issue here? The commercial was literally for cheese in general.
  • It wasn't for a particular brand of cheese?
    • No. The Power of Cheese. It was for the American Dairy Association (or Canadian). And the previous guy was right, it was 2002. Hell, these articles give the exact date it was to premiere.
• This a commercial for some kind of purple product. The product had three letters, the first one being E, and the commercial probably featured people doing sports. I saw this one night on Fuel TV, I think.
  • EAS Myoplex?
• I distinctly remember seeing this commercial one time. I only saw it once and never saw it again. I think it was about insurance of some sort. There was a bobblehead dog and the narrator asked if it would rather have a steak dinner rather than a squeaky bone. The dog "responded" by being pushed on top of the head to seem as if it was nodding.
  • Sounds very much like one of the Churchill insurance adverts.
  • OK, it definitely wasn't that. There was a plain colored background and the dog in question was more like a hound of some sort. And the bobblehead was not alive, it was like an inanimate object.
• I was looking through photos of my child hood and I saw these words on a TV screen in one of the photos. It said "Introducing a NEW BREED of broker". I'm not sure if it was to a trailer or what. Early 90's.
  • Teh Google sez v=onepage&q=%22Introducing%20a%20NEW%20BREED%20of%20broker&f=false that was the servicemark for the brokerage firm Quick & Reilly back in '92.
• This troper remembers a bizarre commercial for a boardgame, but can't for the life of him remember the name. There was a kid and an older man in it, and apparently the gimmick to the game was to avoid hitting a wall. When this happened, the man's head shattered like pottery and the kid said something like "I think he just cracked up!" Later, the kid suffers a similar fate, but he falls over in his chair and we hear his head shatter off camera, while the man says the exact same line. Any idea what this was?
  • This Game Is Bonkers? Sorry, can't find commercial on You Tube.
• I remember this commercial, but no-one else seems to. It starts with an alien viewing Earth from orbit, and apparently saying something along the lines "Greetings earthlings, we come to—", then is suddenly interrupted by the ship shaking and alarms going off, while incredibly loud music plays with the lyrics "Destroy, destroy, destrooooy you!" It cuts to show that the music is coming from some car or truck, then cuts back to show the alien frantically trying to reach the "Planetary Destruct" button while being tossed about by the music.
  • IIRC, this is from a series of commercials for Pioneer car stereos. The alien was picking up a signal from a SETI-type dish array when some Spicoli-like dude rolls by booming death metal and overriding the signal. Here's another from the same series.
• This troper remembers seeing this commercial sometime in the mid 90's with a song that goes "Come on down to adventure land, you'll have some fun at adventure land land land". Couldn't find the commercial on You Tube.
  • It sounds like (or at least very similar to) this commercial for Legoland Billund.

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